December 8, 2013, Sunday

Stanley Crouch’s extended riff on Charlie Parker is less a standard biography and more an exploration of aesthetics and ideas, about America in the first half of the 20th century and black intellect and feeling.

July 16, 2013, Tuesday

To the Editor: Like Stanley Crouch in his review of Flores Forbes's memoir, ''Will You Die With Me?'' (Sept. 10), I welcome some truth-telling that corrects the bloated hero worship of the Black Panthers. Most of the revelations in the book were...

October 1, 2006, Sunday

To the Editor: It was nice of Emily Eakin to concede that ''many'' of the ideas Stanley Crouch expresses in ''The Artificial White Man'' (Jan. 16) ''deserve serious consideration.'' Too bad she didn't find the time to give them any. Geoffrey C....

Oscar Season Seems Like a Distant Dream One of the times last week we saw FONZWORTH BENTLEY (yes, it's no longer FARNSWORTH) was at the Hudson Hotel. It was at a party celebrating ''Gotham Diaries'' (by TONYA LEWIS LEE and CRYSTAL McCRARY...

Nobody called Todd Williams or Helena Echegoyan the n-word when they were growing up. It is not a word they use as a rule or a word they particularly like. But as adults Mr. Williams, a film director, and Ms. Echegoyan, a producer, have become...